Sharon Wheeler’s ScarWork Training – 4-Day CPD Course
Light-touch, fascia-based, CPD-accredited training by Body in Harmony.
Restore movement, comfort and connection through light touch, fascia-based scar therapy.
This four-day, in-person ScarWork course teaches you how to work gently and effectively with scar tissue using Sharon Wheeler’s internationally recognised techniques. Led by leading scar educator Jan Trewartha, this training blends clinical skill with a trauma-aware approach to help clients reintegrate after surgery, injury, or trauma.
ScarWork is subtle but powerful — and its global spread confirms its valuable contribution to transforming bodies and lives.
Next Course (London)
Date: Friday 17 – Monday 20 April 2026
Location: NLSSM Tottenham Hale, North London
Times: 10:00 – 18:00 daily
Cost: £745 (instalment plan incurs a £20 admin fee, total £765)
CPD Hours: 28
Includes: Printed course manual and refreshments
Spaces are limited to ensure individual attention and mentoring.
What Is ScarWork?
ScarWork is a light touch, fascia-based therapeutic approach developed by Sharon Wheeler (USA) that helps reduce restriction, tension and emotional holding in and around scars. It uses gentle three-dimensional techniques to reintegrate scar tissue into the fascial web, improving movement, sensation, and integration without force or pressure. Adhesions stick structures together that should not be stuck together, but ScarWork facilitates the ‘going home’ of tissue. Students learn how to follow the tissue and allow it to go home, which it will do, no matter how long ago the disruption to the tissues occurred.
Rather than ‘fixing’ scars, ScarWork invites the body to reconnect with its own innate ability to self heal
“The work is painless to receive, and the results can be remarkable — often improving appearance, mobility, function, and emotional connection.”
– Jan Trewartha
Watch ScarWork in Action
Watch Sharon Wheeler herself working with ScarWork on a scar caused by an RTA (Road Traffic Accident):
Who This Course Is For
Entry Requirements
This course is designed for qualified hands-on therapists and movement practitioners with hands-on training, including:
What You’ll Learn
In this hands-on CPD course, you’ll develop both practical techniques and a deeper understanding of how scars impact the body and the nervous system. Over twenty techniques are taught in a supportive, small-group environment.
You’ll learn how to:
- Understand the tension-compression nature of the body
- Identify how scars affect fascia locally and globally and affect posture and mobility
- Recognise tension patterns beneath and around scars and how to free them
- Distinguish between hypertrophic and keloid scars
- Work sensitively with mesh-affected tissue
- Identify and relieve the effects of epidurals
- Apply over twenty ScarWork techniques in clinical practice
- Use light touch to follow the scars as they release surgical and traumatic patterning.
- Support emotional and trauma release
- Facilitate post-surgical tissue integration
- Work safely within the guidance of red flags and contraindications
- Understand when and how to refer on to another practitioner.
What You’ll Leave With
- A solid foundation in ScarWork technique and theory
- Confidence working with scars from surgery, injury, and trauma
- A printed course manual
- Certificate of Attendance (28 hours CPD)
- Early notification of new courses, events and consolidation days
- You'll also be invited to join Jan’s practitioner community once it is launched
About Your Instructor
Jan Trewartha has worked with fascia and trauma since the early 1990s and teaches therapists internationally, including, currently, in Ireland, Taiwan and China. She is the founder of Body in Harmony Training, the British Fascia Symposium and The Fascia Hub, and brings clarity, presence and humour to her teaching.
The area around my chin which was heavily scarred feels much more full and voluptuous now, not so dimply and uneven as before. Felicity, ScarWork model
A magical, enlightening experience. You’ve opened up my mind to so much! I felt so safe in your hands and as though it was meant to be. I can’t believe the difference to the scars and the way I feel after each treatment. I am so grateful to you, thank you. Victoria, ScarWork model
I was very excited about this course as I feel it works hand in hand with my other modalities. I have benefited immensely from the invaluable knowledge and experience you have Jan, that will undoubtedly benefit myself and my practice. Thank you. ScarWork student
As a manual therapist to have gained the working knowledge of scars will immensely improve the results of my sessions. Thank you Jan. Micky Frackleton, ScarWork student
Working on the epidural site was an inspiration – instant relief! ScarWork model.
Cannot express how excited I am to begin bringing this work to my practice and share the benefits with my clients. Experiencing and witnessing this work has been quite miraculous, opening a whole other door to my understanding of the body and its innate ability to heal. Anna McLeod, student.
I feel so refreshed in my thinking as a practitioner, the answers to many of my questions have finally been answered. Nicola Stewart, student
I found the course very inspiring. The work is broader and deeper thank I ever expected. I’m excited to begin my journey of ScarWork and bring this huge benefit to my clients and future clients. Thank you! Indy River, student
I found the course enlightening, informative and enhancing all my existing skills. I would recommend to anyone working with fascia, actually anyone who works in bodywork it’s a must. Pawel Wiacek, student.
Recommended Reading
“Scars, Adhesions and the Biotesegral Body” is co-edited by Jan Trewartha & Sharon Wheeler. Lead author Jan Trewartha, with contributions from experts in the field of biotensegrity and other aspects of scarring.
A valuable companion to the course.
What To Bring
- Clean linens or towels for when you are receiving treatment to your scars
- Comfortable clothes – tidy and practical during Clinical Practice sessions
- Dedicated indoor shoes (or bare feet!)
- A notebook and pen
- Your curiosity!
Lunch is not provided — please bring your own. Tea, coffee and biscuits are available.
No — this course is suitable for all qualified hands-on therapists with the requirements stated above.
Yes — you’ll receive a certificate of attendance on day four of the course, and can incorporate ScarWork into your existing practice as soon as you have added it to your insurance.
You may contact our administrator, Julie, on admin@bodyinharmony.org.uk if you’d like to invite a ‘scar model’ to receive work in the Clinical Practice sessions. Otherwise, you will find a link in your Final Course Details email sent out a few weeks before the course starts; the link allows people to apply online to be a scar model.
Yes — you’ll receive 28 hours of CPD accreditation upon completion.
Yes — taught with permission and integrity by experienced trainers globally. Jan Trewartha has been an accredited ScarWork teacher since 2015.
Ready to train in ScarWork?
ScarWork is a gentle but powerful modality that supports deep healing through freeing fascial tension caused by scars and adhesions. This can affect organs, systems, posture and mobility as well as the emotional state of the client. If you're ready to expand your clinical skills and help clients move into a more mobile, physically free state of being, which often brings emotional/mental freedom with it, we’d love to welcome you.
Questions? Contact us here.
Insurance: This course is insurable through Balens, Holistic Insurance, BABTAC, IPTI, Graybrook Insurance Brokers, and the FHT subject to your qualifications.
Cancellation policy: Your deposit is your commitment to the course and is non-refundable. If you have paid in full but are unable to attend the course due to exceptional circumstances, you are welcome to transfer your place to someone else as long as they are suitably qualified at a fee of £40. If this is not possible the Principal will look to resolve the situation in a way that is fair to the student and to the school and will if possible transfer you to another course but charge a one-off £40 administration fee. This can only be done up to four weeks before the start of the course. Please note that a minimum of eight students are required for this course to run and if your late withdrawal means the course cannot run, you will be unable to do so out of fairness to the other students. On our side, if for any reason we are forced to cancel, we will offer you a place on another course or refund 100% of all monies paid.
Covid policy: Please note – if required by government or common-sense guidelines, we will instigate precautions as needed to deal with any current virus situations. These may include masks, extra sanitising, and changes in how we run the class to reduce the number of people you are in personal contact with. If you have concerns about any of these precautions, please contact the tutor immediately so that we can discuss how best to accommodate you. Thank you for your cooperation.
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